{"product_id":"spring-and-all-9781513283029","title":"Spring and All","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/i\u003e (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In \u003ci\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/i\u003e, the closest thing to a manifesto he wrote, Williams addresses the nature of his modern poetics which not only pursues a particularly American idiom, but attempts to capture the relationship between language and the world it describes. Part essay, part poem, \u003ci\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark of American literature from a poet whose daring search for the outer limits of life both redefined and expanded the meaning of language itself. \"There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world. If there is an ocean it is here.\" In \u003ci\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/i\u003e, Williams identifies the incomprehensible nature of consciousness as the single most important subject of poetry. Accused of being \"heartless\" and \"cruel,\" of producing \"positively repellant\" works of art in order to \"make fun of humanity,\" Williams doesn't so much defend himself as dig in his heels. His poetry is addressed \"[t]o the imagination\" itself; it seeks to break down the \"the barrier between sense and the vaporous fringe which distracts the attention from its agonized approaches to the moment.\" When he states that \"so much depends \/ upon \/\/ a red wheel \/ barrow,\" he refers to the need to understand the nature of language, which keeps us in touch with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliams, William Carlos:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (1883-1963) was an American poet and physician. Born in Rutherford, New Jersey to an English father and a Puerto Rican mother, Williams was raised in a bilingual family and spoke mostly Spanish at home. In 1902, he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania's medical school, graduating in 1906 before moving to Leipzig to study pediatrics. In 1909, he self-published \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e in Rutherford, marking a humble start to a distinguished career in literature. In 1912, he married Florence Herman and settled in Paterson, New Jersey, where he established himself as a successful family doctor. With the help of Ezra Pound, Williams published \u003ci\u003eThe Tempers\u003c\/i\u003e (1913) in London and became involved with the Imagists, a short-lived literary movement centered on Pound and H. D. In 1923, he published \u003ci\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/i\u003e, a hybrid book of prose and free verse poems grounded in observations from daily life. Overshadowed by the work of T. S. Eliot, Williams nevertheless became the figurehead of an experimental American modernism that would flower in his five-book epic poem \u003ci\u003ePaterson\u003c\/i\u003e, published between 1946 and 1958. In addition to his poetry, which he pursued alongside a decades-long career in medicine, Williams gained a reputation as an autobiographer, essayist, and theorist whose interests ranged from the nature of poetic language to the narrative of American history. He served as a mentor to generations of poets, influencing directly and indirectly the artists of the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School. \u003ci\u003ePictures from Breughel and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), his final work, earned Williams a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mint Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520707236114,"sku":"9781513283029","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_65834f0c-a9c7-42bb-8062-dcd8e292efa6.jpg?v=1748601655","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/spring-and-all-9781513283029","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}